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Totally anecdotally: I have to scrub a thick layer of bugs off my motorcycle helmet after every single ride but almost never off the windshield of my car. Though this could also be a function of where I’m going (typically rural back roads on the bike and highway/interstate in the car), but even then I’m still not sure, since there is a decent amount of overlap in local routes

Isn’t that a pretty good reason why it’s bad? Alabama is massively failing an entire demographic segment of their society, not even a small segment but something like 40% of it. That does seem like a massive infrastructure and education failure. Unless there is a deeper implication here that I’m missing.

How is it ridiculous? This seems like an argument more like because you can do it, you should do it. What if car manufacturers had similar ideas to "focus on usability issues" and recorded every driver as they're driving their car. You could even use the same argument, if you're out in public there's no expectation of privacy, and you don't own the tech in the car, you just license it. But somehow we would all consider that to be crossing a red line and to be super creepy.

Prudishness and Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll are just two sides of the same coin. They both need the other side to exist to stay relevant.

This isn't about being a legitimate tourist though. That has always been allowed. There are not many jurisdictions around the world where you are allowed to work and not pay any taxes though. Just because there is a loophole where you _can_ work remotely and it's extremely hard to detect or enforce doesn't suddenly make it legal, you are simply violating the terms of your Visitor's visa.

This still seems a bit dubious—-90% of people who view the ad being qualified doesn’t mean in any way that 90% of applicants will be successful. If you have more applicants from that bottom 10% pool who click on the ad to proceed, then it would be statistically very easy to end up with a reject rate much higher than 10%.

Not OP, but why would you feel bad? Anecdotally, I’ve gone into interviews before thinking it means nothing, and one of the small companies I wasn’t serious about ended up convincing me to join. It’s really on the company to sell their vision.

Assuming that is the appropriate penalty (I know nothing about Chancery law), why exactly can’t they just issue a warrant for his arrest and put him in jail? He doesn’t have a private militia or anything like that

How is it any different than the standard “Exceeds expectations/Meets Expectations/Needs Improvement” rating system that most companies do?

> how it feels for normal people who get there shit done

My perspective is that once I took a step back and really looked, I noticed almost nobody is getting ANY shit done, and perhaps that’s OK. I was just holding myself to unreasonable standards of what “shit done” is that I don’t hold other people to and that was the root cause of my exhaustion. Society progressing is really just a series of extremely tiny things with the occasional rare major event pushed up to human population scale, something that one individual can’t compete against without burning out.

I'm not saying there are absolutely no people out there who are actually getting shit done and making it look easy, and somehow never burning out, but they are by far the exception and in no way "normal" people (and in many cases they are ticking time bombs, but the fallout may be well hidden)

I suffer from this conundrum too. One thing I did observe is that people who don't actively follow the 24/7 news and social media cycle are still are fairly aware of important major events (Ukraine, COVID, etc), as it would be hard to be completely ignorant without living under a rock, so maybe it doesn't have to be a binary thing.

Large dense cities in certain parts of Europe and east Asia don’t face these issues (and even then, there isn’t really the same concept of large and dense in most of Europe), but I would say chaotic unfriendly cities are the default in most of the world. In a sense, many American cities act as a bridge between these two worlds. It also doesn’t help that you can fall much farther in the US than other places before anyone even begins to notice.

Yeah that is a pretty naive algorithm though, especially if you can explain it in one sentence. After all that, that’s the best algorithm they got? If you buy one thing you might buy two. Pretty sure most of us could implement that in a line or two of code and save billions in research. And even if this whole research exercise was necessary to discover this fact, it’s still not a “smart” algorithm if there are a ton of false positives.

And it’s still a relatively trivial use case—-if it comes to potentially miring someone in legal issues, I hope the “algorithm” can do better than that.

> “becoming ever more reliable with time, as the algorithms learn“

I mean considering Amazon has put in kajillions of dollars on their learning algorithms and yet now in 2022 those algorithms still aren’t even smart enough to figure out trivial stuff, like that I’m probably not gonna buy a second air fryer immediately after buying a first one, and stop advertising them to me. What hope do we have for this new algorithm?

Not the op, but to be pedantic, every single international border crossing in the world is an official government “nationality discrimination” department. That’s what passports are for. (Not saying I necessarily agree with this, but it is the world we live in)

The employer is the one taking that extra value, so why wouldn’t the “you already have enough money” argument cut both ways? I also assume management is wealthier than the previous year.

This is completely out of context. He said that before civil rights were realized, and Black Americans were regularly structurally discriminated against. The special thing that needed to be done was to not let things remain the status quo but to allow Black people to become full members of society.

I think that’s the point of the article. If you just look at the numbers like an MBA would then maybe it makes sense. But all of the negative externalities are being bore by the local communities where the derailments are happening, and those don’t show up in the balance sheets. So if they’re not in the balance sheets then why would someone in the corporate big city office care about it at all? That is now totally someone else’s problem. The numbers still look great.

100% agreed. Somehow this article manages to redefine mindfulness as just convincing yourself to feel no guilt for anything (“In general, mindfulness seems to calm uncomfortable feelings” is a direct quote from the article, and most subsequent conclusions are drawn from that statement). That’s not mindfulness, that’s just being a narcissist sociopath.

> Eng manager here. Honestly not everyone is sold on remote being better much less equivalent in productivity or output compared to being in an office.

Ad an IC, I would have potentially believed this if the past two years where everyone was working from home wasn’t anything but unbridled success for the tech industry. Companies literally can’t hire us fast enough right now, and yet there are really still some managers out there wondering about productivity and output? How about looking at the big picture?

> But also a lot of times, the ICs are slackers, loafing around, lying on tickets, getting bogged down and not speaking up

Again, this is purely about controlling others. If your IC is not performant, there are ways of addressing that like adults with performance and goal reviews, improvement plans, mentoring, etc. Requiring them to come in so they have adult supervision makes me chuckle. Are managers supposed to be like daycare supervisors of children or something?

And I’m not trying to rail on you personally, maybe I’m more triggered by my own management, but this whole post reads to me like such typical management speak of “we tried nothing and we are all out of ideas”

> it’s AI, we're not there yet.

At this point, we still barely even understand what human intelligence is :)

But one thing is for sure: we can definitely notice a _lack_ of intelligence, which is why I think the goal posts keep moving as AI improves (maybe in a way similar to the uncanny valley, that the closer you get to the real thing, the farther away you seem, I.e. all the things that make it NOT human get amplified on observation).

Not OP, but I don't feel this has anything to do with any specific people, but more an indictment of the system itself that we've created. Historically, there has never been an incentive or compensation structure that exists in companies that would lead management to begin to care about this stuff over their other priorities and deliverables.

While true, there are far more young people than old people dying at least in the US: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/...), and in general there have never before been as many humans on earth.

The problem is that for every $1 someone is willing to spend to not have spammy results, a spammer is willing to pay $10 for you to see it anyway. And the more "trustworthy" a platform grows, then the going price for manipulating it will keep rising until they hire the right MBA who decides to squander the company's reputation for a quick buck. Seems to be a recurring theme at least.

We’re all just searching Reddit anyway and it’s just easier to use Google to search Reddit than to use Reddit’s own search tool.

This video itself is likely meant for Russian consumption. The Russian government doesn't need it to be 100% effective, it's far easier if people get scared and self censor, refraining from mentioning anything about the war, knowing in the back of their heads that this could happen to them at anytime.

That's probably just due to normal staff retention issues that everywhere seems to be experiencing right now. There are still plenty of brand new Whole Foods popping up, plus the Amazon Go technology has just begun to become integrated as of just a few days ago.

Interesting, even Spain seems to not get a red outline (maybe because of Catalonia?)

A lot of times I’ve found the amount of time it takes me to solve a problem is about the same whether I’m actively working on it or not. Once a problem has been percolating in my head for a while things eventually “click” and it just becomes a matter of typing out the code. This looks like procrastination from the outside, but I’m still working even if it looks like I’m taking it easy. At least my brain is, somehow. I have come to trust this process after many years.

Alternatively if I start tackling the problem immediately and really put my nose to the grindstone there’s often a lot of moments where I realize I didn’t understand the problem fully, and waste a ton of time backtracking. So it ends up taking the exact same amount of time, only difference is how many times I banged my head against the wall in frustration.

> Well, tough luck? I don't think it's that important. Just accept it as a fact of life: you lost access to your email account and can't verify you still own it (you don't, clearly).

This case might not be super important in the long run, but why does it have to be a fact of life? If a system doesn't work as its human operators intend, that's a system failure, not a human being failure.